Wednesday 19 October 2011

Muse - 'Uprising' Research

Muse Research
Background
Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Belmany (lead vocals, guitars, piano, keyboards, keytar), Christopher Woodstenholme (bass, backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, harmonica) and Dominic Howard (drums, percussion, synthesisers, sampling, harmtar). Uprising is a song by English rock band Muse, featured on their fifth studio album The Resistance, in which they wrote our choosen song, 'Uprising'. The song was released as the Lead single from the album on 7 September 2009. The title "Uprising" was first revealed on 3 July 2009, when the album's track listing was released on the band's Twitter page; the song was unveiled as the opening track of the album, preceding the title track "Resistance".

Early Muse songs' lyrics dealt with introspective themes, such as relationships, juvenile alienation, and difficulties they had encountered while trying to establish themselves in their hometown. However, with the band's progress, their song concepts have become more ambitious, addressing issues such as the fear of the evolution of technology, in their Origin of Symmetry  album. They deal with the apocalypse and catastrophic conflicts, in Absolution and Black Holes and Revelations respectively, and with a worldwide revolution in The Resistance album. This demostrates a progression for thier lyrical content and hidden messages as they move up in the world of music so does thier exploration of wider themes. For thier first Ablum they concertrated on thier own issues and problems and addressed them as a personal aspect, however as they moved up they included theme's which affected people on a global scale such as the 'Fear of the Proliferation of society' and the oppression of the working class proletariat in thier latest albumn 'The resistance'. 

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